Ursula Caberta: the holes are being plugged by financial
support from the USA.

Hamburg, Germany
April 7, 2000
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The trial in the sect suit against the Interior Agency's Work
Group begins today in the Hanseatic City [of Hamburg].

Hamburg (lno) In the assessment of the Interior Agency's
Work Group, the Scientology Organization in the
Hanseatic City is "practically bankrupt." The director of the
Work Group, Ursula Caberta, said yesterday, "Charges of
fraudulent bankruptcy have already been filed against the
organization." She said the Scientologists in Hamburg are
keeping their heads above water "only with financial
injections from the USA." Even the purchase of an
approximately 20 million mark building as a new
organization center in Hamburg is said to have been
possible only with money from the U.S. center. Caberta
pointed out that the Scientology Organization was not
regarded as a religious organization, but as a
"profit-oriented commercial operation."

That assessment is also shared by U.S. Scientology critic
Bob Minton. Minton, who is regarded by the organization
as "public enemy number one," said in the Hanseatic City
that the primary interest of Scientology's management was
to acquire as much money as possible: "That has nothing to
do with religion."

Minton described how Scientology's "paramilitary
intelligence agency, OSA, put pressure on opponents with
Mafia methods." He said he had been threatened in calls to
both his family and to his business associates. Just the prior
month, he said, attorneys from the organization had offered
his parents to take over court costs if they would sue their
son.

That is not something that a church does. That is the dealing
of a totalitarian group which puts itself in peoples' way and
destroys their lives," Minton believed. He criticized the fact
that the totalitarian aspects of Scientology are not
recognized in the United States.

Today begins the first trial in the Hamburg Administrative
Court of a Scientology complaint against the Interior
Agency's Work Group.

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Hamburg, Germany
April 8, 2000
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Hamburg companies can continue to demand that business
partners sign a statement as to whether they belong to the
Scientology organization or not. The so-called "technology
statement" was drawn up by the Interior Ministry's Work
Group on Scientology (AGS). A complaint against the
AGS was dismissed yesterday in the Administration Court.

Argument: With or without the statement, companies have
the free choice of selecting with whom they do business.
Scientology intends to contest the decision in Superior
Administrative Court.